Mladen, we must have started in the same era. You're describing the
environment I started with, however, our disk was 10MB. So you remember
SQL*Forms 1.3 (IAC/IAG/IAP) and HLI as well?
> Carel, I know that. That was my first oracle version. I installed V4 on an
> IBM
> PC/XT with WD 20MB hard drive and two 5.25 floppy drives which could
> each hold 360k of information. Yes, you read it correctly. It was 20 MB
> hard drive, not 20 GB. OS was the unforgettable DOS 3.0 and the graphic
> card was called "Hercules". I don't know why was it called "graphic card"
> because it didn't have any graphic. The first real graphic was CGA and
> then
> EGA, VGA, XGA on PS/2 (IBM PS/2, not Playstation 2) and SVGA.
>
> On 2003.11.16 21:04, Carel-Jan Engel wrote:
>> Hi Mladen,
>>
>> At 06:19 12-11-03 -0800, you wrote:
>>> SQL*Plus has a ghastly and disgusting user interface,
>>> implemented without "readline" or equivalent, which would give a
>>> command
>>> history.
>>> Littering the system with those @#$%! afiedt.buf files is bad enough
>>> but
>>> line
>>> editting commands are an indicator of how much oracle cares for the
>>> user
>>> interface.
>> <snip>
>>> and sqlplus is definitely not something that I'd like presenting to my
>>> users.
>>
>>
>> Do you know how SQL*Plus was called during Oracle V4? (And maybe
>> earlier,
>> but this is as far as my history with Oracle goes)
>>
>> They called it UFI, which means User Friendly Interface!
>>
>> Regards, Carel-Jan
>>
>> -- There will allways be another 10 last bugs --
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